Coin-mailer.



NO. 885524. PATENTED APR. 28, 1908- G. W. COLLINGS.

"COIN MAILERL 'APBLIOATIQN Hum MAY a. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. OOLLINGS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO COLLINGS PAPER GOODS COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

COIN-MAILER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 5, 1906.

Patented April 28, 1908.

Serial No. 315,420.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. CoLLINos, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coin-Mailers, of which the folowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved construction of holders .for coin adapted to be sent throu h the mails, and commonly called coin mai ers.

My object in the invention has been to devise a construction which is not only very cheap, but which will hold the coin with all needed security and which can be bent without danger of rupture of the manila from which it is formed. The mailer can be cut from large sheets with very little, if any, waste.

The nature of my improvement is fully disclosed in the description given below and is also illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which latter,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the mailer. Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 are sections on the lines 33 and 44 respectively of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the mailer is formed.

Referring to said drawing, 6 represents the center or body portion of a rectangular blank of paper ada ted to make the most approved form of mai er. This blank is folded first along the longitudinal lines 7 and 8 and the longitudinal sections 9 and 10 outside of these lines are folded over onto the front of the body, such sections comin close together tral transverse line, such, for instance, as

that indicated by the stitching 15, means are taken to secure the various thicknesses together, a series of coin pockets will be formed on the front side of the body between the body and the folded sections, and that such pockets willbe closed except at one side the other three sides of the pockets.

I do not wish to be limited to any particular method of securing the thicknesses together along the line 15, but I much prefer and recommend the sewing or stitching as being the most expeditious as well as the most satisfactory way of making the attachment. The pockets require a separation of the flat sides in order to admit the coin, and consequently after the coin is inserted, the pressure upon it will hold it securely against accidental escape. The coin is easily released from any one of the pockets by pressing the back of the pocket away from the front.

I use in the manufacture of this mailer an ordinary article of manila as contradistinguished from card or paste board, so that any flexure or bending which the mailer receives while in use is not likely to break or damage the paper in any way and also not likely to release the coin.

It will be obvious that the number of pockets can be varied and other changes made in the mailer without departing from the claims or from the spirit of the invention.

The construction shown is adapted to form corresponding pockets on both sides of the mailer so that its carrying capacity is very considerable.

I claim:

' A coin mailer consisting of a blank having longitudinal folds, and having its longitudinally folded ends folded on transverse lines and lying on the back of the mailer, and

transverse stitching passing through the folded ends and through the middlepart of the mailer between the transverse lines of folding, to produce a plurality of coin pockets on both the front and back of the mailer.

GEORGE W. OOLLINGS.

Witnesses:

H. M. MUNDAY, EDw. S. EVARTS. 

